Weekly Ten (06-30-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Gates Says Yahoo Deal 'not Likely'
A deal between Microsoft and Yahoo doesn't appear likely to happen in the future, Bill Gates said in a TV interview on Friday.
More @ PCWorld

2. Tooling Around With Ajax
Web 2.0 operations like social networking sites have amplified the popularity of through-the-browser applications relying on Ajax. There are lots of toolkits out there for making life easier for Ajax developers. Security, however, remains a concern.
More @ LinuxInsider

3. Solving the mystery of Snow Leopard's shrinking apps
In response to a report earlier this week pointing out that many of the applications in early builds of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard are dramatically smaller in size, a number of developers have weighed in to explain where all those missing megabytes went.
More @ AppleInsider

4. LED serial debugging for cell phone hacking

More @ HackaDay

5. Battle of the Titans - Mandriva vs openSUSE: The Rematch
Last fall when the two mega-distros openSUSE and Mandriva both hit the mirrors, it was difficult to decide which I liked better. In an attempt to narrow it down, I ran some light-hearted tests and found Mandriva won out in a side-by-side comparison. But things change rapidly in the Linux world and I wondered how a competition of the newest releases would come out.
More @ Tuxmachines

6. Leaked Screen Shots Of Mythical Digg Recommendation Engine
Digg has been talking up a new Recommendation Engine that intelligently suggests new stories to users for almost a year. Well, a source says that the company will launch it soon, probably this week. We have some details and a couple of leaked screen shots, which may or may not be real (I’m betting on real).
More @ TechCrunch

7. Using data to fight webspam
As the head of the webspam team at Google, I'm in charge of making sure your search results are as relevant and informative as possible. Webspam, in case you've never heard of it, is the junk you see in search results when websites successfully cheat their way into higher positions in search results or otherwise violate search engine quality guidelines.
More @ Googleblog

8. Great Scott! The 2015 McFly Sneakers Are Now (Somewhat) Real

More @ Wired Blog

9. Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?
The parade of articles and blog posts on Bill Gates’ legacy continue to roll out as Gates’ last day as a full-time employee (June 27) rapidly approaches.
More @ ZDNet Blog

10. Do You Want Inner Peace?
Nope, It Doesn’t Just Come From Being Quiet, Spa Treatments, Meditation, and Breathing Exercises. Let Me Tell You How You Can Have Inner Peace No Matter How Busy You Are…
More @ BoSanchez

Weekly Ten (06-23-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Robot Can Replicate Itself
English researchers have developed a robot that can not only create 3-D replicas of objects like shoes and door handles - it also can replicate itself.
More @ PCWorld.com

2. iTunes sells 5 billion songs; serving 50,000 movies per day
Apple announced Thursday that customers on its iTunes Store have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs to date.
More @ AppleInsider

3. Streamlined Firefox 3 makes browsing safer, more productive
Desktop users, developers, and reviewers all had their download managers aimed at the Firefox Web site Monday to grab Firefox 3 as soon as it launched and also help Mozilla set a world record. World record or not, the latest Firefox release is a world-class Web browser.
More @ Linux.com

4. Waterproof USB for underwater cameras

More @ HackaDay

5. Home-Brewed Entertainment the Open Source Way
There are plenty of companies offering to sell you the latest set-top box or media server for your home theater. However, many of them are tied up with proprietary technologies that limit what a true-hearted tinkerer can do with them. There are other ways. Open source software exists for those with the courage to do it themselves.
More @ LinuxInsider

6. Why is Microsoft sponsoring the Open Source Census?
The Open Source Census, a collaborative project endeavoring to quantify the use of open-source software in enterprises, got a new sponsor on June 16: Microsoft.
More @ ZDNetBlogs

7. Sun: Java will be free this year
Following the announcement of Sun's plans to make Java free and open under the General Public License (GPL) at JavaOne 2006, there have been a few struggles on the path to open source. At the time of the OpenJDK release in May last year, around five percent of the code--the portion not owned by Sun--was still closed.
More @ ZDNetAsia

8. Crapgadget: revolving USB hub, revolting MP4 watch, lavish amounts of lameness

More @ Engadget

9. Google Code Jam is back
If you're a great sprinter, you've probably been in a few races. And if you're a great chess player, you've probably had your share of matches. But what do you do if you're a great programmer?
More @ Googleblog

10. Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness; Money Buys Freedom
And I Urge You To Use That Freedom To Love God More!
More @ BoSanchez

Weekly Ten (06-16-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:




1. Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic

For years, both kinds of Web surfers have paid the same price for access. But now three of the country’s largest Internet service providers are threatening to clamp down on their most active subscribers by placing monthly limits on their online activity.

More @ Yahoo Finance

2. TomTom for iPhone lives; Jobs' true health; green iPhone 3G?

Despite reports to the contrary, TomTom is still working on a GPS app for the iPhone. Meanwhile, Steve Jobs' thin look may be permanent evidence of his cancer cure, Greenpeace is concerned about a toxic iPhone 3G. And a growing number of would-be iPhone programers are attacking Apple's backlog in approving their full developer status.
More @ AppleInsider

3. Our agreement to provide ad technology to Yahoo!

Today, we announced a non-exclusive advertising agreement that will provide Yahoo! with access to our AdSense for search and AdSense for content advertising programs on their U.S. and Canadian web properties. In addition, we will work to enable interoperability between our respective instant messaging services allowing users better, broader communication online.
More @ Googleblog

4. Universal joystick USB interface

More @ HackaDay

5. Microsoft Now Sponsor of Open Source Census

Microsoft has become a sponsor of The Open Source Census, a project started earlier this year that aims to track and catalog the use of open-source software in enterprises worldwide, the group announced Monday.
More @ PCWorld.com

6. Blueprint for nuclear warhead found on smugglers' computers

Blueprints for a sophisticated and compact nuclear warhead have been found in the computers of the world's most notorious nuclear-smuggling racket, according to a leading US researcher.
More @ Guardian.co.uk

7. How Firefox Outran the Hounds

Firefox has risen from humble beginnings -- it was assembled from the scraps left over when Netscape was left for dead -- to become a real thorn in the side of Microsoft. Now, as it prepares to go live with its third version, the open source project's leadership promises more innovation.
More @ LinuxInsider

8. Even more on Dell's Studio 1535 / 1536 and the Studio brand

More @ Engadget


9. IE8 development: Microsoft should learn from Apple, Mozilla

Internet Explorer 8 is set to be Microsoft's most standards compliant browser ever. After originally stating that IE8 would default to the same noncompliant behavior exhibited by IE7, Microsoft relented and plumped for standard-by-default.
More @ Arstechnica

10. Do Not Complicate Your Life

I was walking in the lobby of St. Luke’s hospital in Quezon City when this man came up and hit me with this very deep question.
More @ BoSanchez

Weekly Ten (06-09-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. NASA: 'Extreme programming' controls Mars Lander robot Scooping up soil samples and searching for elements that could support life on Mars isn't just an adventure for the Mars Lander and the robotic arm doing the scooping.
More @ ComputerWorld

2. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
You may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Some people have wondered why we changed our favicon -- after all, we hadn't in 8.5 years(!).
More @ Googleblog

3. Virtual Space Travel, Part 1: One Small Step
With the help of virtual worlds such as Second Life -- which can release them from the burdens of physics -- everyday people are starting to explore space without actually going there. So far, NASA has begun to host avatars on two islands in Second Life: one for experimenting and another for exploring.
More @ LinuxInsider

4. IR controlled relays
More @ HackaDay

5. Run Xbox Media Center from a USB Drive
We've shown you how to turn your classic Xbox and Mac into a super-powered media center using Xbox Media Center, but what about everybody else? Well, if you've got at least a 1 GB USB drive and a computer that can boot from it, you're in luck.
More @ LifeHacker

6. From Mind-Blowing to Mockery — The iPhone 2 Mocked Up
The creative types that make up Apple's fan base have been busy dreaming up the ideal iPhone, Version 2. (Steve Jobs is expected to introduce the real thing on Monday.)
More @ Wired

7. Ultimate Edition: Not so ultimate
Ultimate Edition (UE) 1.8 is a remaster of Ubuntu Hardy Heron with custom software repositories and a distinctive theme. Its claim to fame over pure Ubuntu is convenience, due to preloaded updates and software.
More @ Linux.com

8. Philips debuts 22-inch auto-stereoscopic 3D monitor
More @ Engadget

9. Quantum computing advance—diamonds are a qubit’s best friend

Another week, another quantum computing story. Quantum computing is a very hot topic in the world of physics at the moment because, for the first time, we can actually contemplate the sort of control required to make a quantum computer.
More @ Arstechnica

10. “Bite-Size It!”
It’s The Secret of Champions.
More @ BoSanchez
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Weekly Ten (06-02-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. 2012: The Year The Internet Ends
Almost all smaller websites/services will disappear over time and multinationals who are used to using big budgets to brute force their content into every media outlet will finally be able to approach the internet in the same way.
More @ IPower

2. Defrag Your Office for Increased Efficiency
One of the side effects of having so much stuff to help us get work done is dealing with the clutter it creates in our workspace. But just like you can defragment a hard drive—organize the bits and bytes so that related ones are closest to one another for faster access—you can also defrag your office to make it more efficient.
More @ Lifehacker

3. Subnotebook Blues: Lightweights in More Ways Than One
Those of us who carry laptops have different tastes and needs, of course, so it's unlikely computer makers will ever agree on the ideal compact. It always comes down to a balancing act over size, weight, price, features and ease of use.
More @ LinuxInsider

4. Picaxe tachometer
More @ HackaDay

5. Sessions and snacks at Google I/O
We hosted Google I/O at the Moscone Center in San Francisco this week, with 3,000+ developers in attendance. They took advantage of nearly 100 in-depth technical sessions, on-site massage therapists, and 3,500 pounds of assorted snacks (including 395 pounds of M&Ms and 190 pounds of Gummi Bears).
More @ Googleblog

6. Phishers Target New Victims on LinkedIn
Users of the professional-oriented social networking site LinkedIn are being warned that scam artists are using the site to nab lucrative bank account information from naive victims, say security experts.
More @ PCWorld

7. Ozzie: Open source a more disruptive competitor than Google
Google has nothing on open source when it comes to potential competitive threats to Microsoft, according to Redmond’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie.
More @ ZDNetBlogs

8. RCA intros three new Small Wonder budget camcorders
More @ Engadget


9. Phoenix to Earthlings: I’ve Landed! Awesome!

Whoever thought a NASA spacecraft could be so adept at social networking and Web 2.0?

More @ NYTimes.com

10. Random Favorites (Philippine Tech News and Blogs)

|JotSpot Reborn! - My Digital Corner

|Fedora 9: Drumrolls with Linux Hydrogen - SYSAD LINUX BLOG

|Firefox 3 Sets a Guinness World Record - Ubuntu Site

|Creating Tech Marvels Out Of A $40 Wii Remote - Ready To Be Rich

|Nokia BH-604 Bluetooth Headset - Techy Kid

|Palm is not a “dying platform” - MakaPalm

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
Anthony Burgess

Weekly Ten (05-26-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Linux May Power New Nokia Phones
The world's top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as the role of its Internet-focused devices grows, company officials said.
More @ PCWorld

2. Introduction to Google Search Quality
Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the ranking of Google search results. Our job is clear: A few hundreds of millions of times a day people will ask Google questions, and within a fraction of a second Google needs to decide which among the billions of pages on the web to show them -- and in what order.
More @ Googleblog

3. HyperCard: What Could Have Been
Bill Atkinson is the programming genius behind HyperCard, MacPaint and much of the original Macintosh operating system, but these days he's wistful about what could have been.
More @ Wired

4. Biggest drawing in the world created with GPS
More @ HackaDay

5. The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market
Is Microsoft's vision to compete in search and reinvent itself as an advertising company nothing more than an attempt to get back into its familiar position as Top Gun?
More @ TechCrunch

6. No is Ark verdict
Ark Linux is a distribution developed primarily for new Linux users, although its developers say experienced users should find it powerful enough to use as well. I've tested it before and found the later claim a bit overstated. Would version 2008.1, released this month, be a change for the better?
More @ Linux.com

7. OLPC Dreams of Power-Skimping, Touchscreen Notebook for 75 Bucks
The One Laptop Per Child organization has revealed details about a new notebook it hopes to offer by 2010. Dual touchscreens will replace a physical keyboard, and the design will use half as much power as OLPC's current XO laptop. In addition, OLPC says the cost of the notebook may be brought down to just $75.
More @ LinuxInsider

8. Glow in the dark Xbox 360 enclosure takes you back to 1992
More @ Engadget

9. NASA's Phoenix probe lands on Mars
The Mars Phoenix Lander has completed its 296-day, 422 million-mile journey to Mars on a mission to find signs of life. Directors had remained anxious over the first-ever landing of a probe near Mars' north pole, saying there was about a 50-50 chance of a successful touchdown.
More @ CNN.com

10. Learn To Say No...So You Can Say A Bigger Yes To Life!
Difficult People Will Teach You How To Build Your Boundaries
More @ BoSanchez

Weekly Ten (05-19-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Asus to embed Linux into all motherboards
Asus is to embed a lightweight, instant-on version of Linux called "Splashtop" into all its motherboards, following good feedback from customers.
More @ ZDNet News

2. Oh Yeah? Fork You!
Because open source code is freely distributable, anyone can take that code and create their own unique mutant mashup version of it any time they feel like it. Whether anyone else in the world will care about their crazy new version of the code is not at all clear, but that's not the point.
More @ CodingHorror

3. Google Translate adds 10 new languages...
Language is one of the biggest challenges we have in making information universally accessible. As part of the machine translation team within Google Research, I'm happy to report we've been hard at work to overcome this challenge.
More @ Googleblog

4. Interfacing your laptops onboard i2c
More @ HackaDay


5. A USF professor plans to add a heart to robot rescuers
Where disasters strike, Robin Murphy and her robots rush in.
More @ Tampabay.com

6. Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?
Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft?
More @ ZDNet Blogs

7. A Tale of Four Kernels
The FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Solaris, and Windows operating systems have kernels that provide comparable facilities. Interestingly, their code bases share almost no common parts, while their development processes vary dramatically. We analyze the source code of the four systems by collecting metrics in the areas of file organization, code structure, code style, the use of the C preprocessor, and data organization.

More @ Spinellis.gr

8. Swashbot sashays his way into our hearts
More @ Engadget


9. Wii Expected to Beat Xbox 360 U.S. Sales in May
It appears as though the Wii will surpass the Xbox 360 in North America a bit earlier than expected, as Nintendo announced last week that 9.5 million units have sold in the U.S. alone since launch.
More @ PCWorld

10. Random Favorites (Philippine Tech News and Blogs)

|Now on Ubuntu Hardy Heron - MakaPalm

|The Principle of Leverage And How To Use It In Our Life - Ready To Be Rich

|The 20 Percent Factor - My Digital Corner

|The Disconnected Life - Jucato’s Data Core

|Do You Have a Difficult Person in Your Life? - Bo Sanchez


It's never just a game when you're winning.
- George Carlin

Weekly Ten (05-12-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Political Loyalties in Web Frameworks
There are at least two distinct forms of web framework styles: "right-leaning" and "left-leaning" (in the political sense).
More @ plope.com

2. 3G settings discovered in latest beta of iPhone firmware
As if there were any doubt that Apple's next-generation iPhone would include support for 3G wireless networks, an inactive preference dialog extracted from the most recent beta of iPhone Software v2.0 may offer the most concrete evidence yet to that end.
More @ AppleInsider

3. Investing in the future of the open Internet
As you may have read, Google, Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners have entered into an agreement to invest $3.2 billion in a new wireless broadband company.
More @ Googleblog

4. Kernel driver for the PIC18F4550 microcontroller
More @ HackaDay

5. IFPI Advises Kids to Use LimeWire and Kazaa
Together with the charity Childnet, IFPI recently launched a campaign to educate kids, teachers and parents about the dangers of filesharing. Ironically, the legal alternatives they suggest direct the kids to LimeWire, Kazaa and sites that sell hardcore adult movies.
More @ TorrentFreak

6. Sync Your iPhone Wirelessly in Linux
Linux users, let's take a look at how to set up your iPhone or iPod touch for any-time wireless access after the jump.
More @ Lifehacker

7. Microsoft shares more IE8 security details
When Microsoft officials released a first test build of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 back in March, they said they were intentionally refraining from talking specifics about new security features and functionality that would be part of the next browser release.
More @ ZDNetBlogs

8. Terrafugia hopes to showcase drivable airplane this summer
More @ Engadget

9. DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 252
It's a Fedora week here at DistroWatch. A new version of the popular distribution will be released later this week, complete with the usual cutting edge features, such as KDE 4, dramatic speed improvements, support for the ext4 file system and many others.
More @ Distrowatch

10. Random Favorites (Philippine Tech News and Blogs)

*Is Linux Really Free from Virus? -UbuntuSite

*Tip: Simple SSL Certificate Scanner -Pinoy Tux

*Adobe Flex: Specifying Remote Object Endpoint at Runtime - Me and the Computer

*GIMP 2.6 - coming very soon! - Ang Pilipino Gimp

*Wordpress 2.5 - Simply Wow! - Techsier

*Don't Complain! - Bo Sanchez

*iPhone In Philippines, Will Consumers get It ? - Tech at Hand

*Episode 14: Learning Robotics -You Got Tech


There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Weekly Ten (05-05-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. US senator: China wants hotels to filter Internet
The Chinese government is demanding that US-owned hotels there filter Internet service during the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, US Senator Sam Brownback has alleged.
More @ Computerworld

2. Top 5 Tiny Distros
I was cleaning up my /home partition when I noticed I had several tiny distros hanging around waiting to be tested. So I thought this might be a good time to write an updated Mini-distro Roundup. Unlike last time, the five contestants are all less than 88 MB in download size.
More @ Tuxmachines

3. How to avoid getting hooked
Millions of people have gotten "urgent" emails asking them to take immediate action to prevent some impending disaster. "Our bank has a new security system. Update your information now or you won't be able to access your account," or "We couldn't verify your information; click here to update your account."
More @ Googleblog

4. Hacking Harmony for Linux
More @ HackaDay

5. Architecture astronauts take over
It was seven years ago today when everybody was getting excited about Microsoft's bombastic announcement of Hailstorm, promising that "Hailstorm makes the technology in your life work together on your behalf and under your control."
More @ JoelOnSoftware

6. Flash Wars: Adobe in the History and Future of Flash
Pitted against Microsoft's efforts to crush Flash using its own copycat Silverlight platform, open source projects seeking to duplicate Flash for free, and Apple's efforts to create a mobile platform wholly free of any trace of Flash, Adobe has scrambled to announce efforts to make Flash a public specification in the Open Screen Project.
More @ AppleInsider

7. Creative Ways to Reuse "Disposable" Items
We asked earlier this week what disposable items you had found clever re-uses for, and the answers are in. Not surprisingly, some of you have some pretty crafty uses for household goods that usually end up at the curb.
More @ Lifehacker

8. Nike Dunks + WiFi = A Step in the Right Direction
More @ Engadget

9. Geeks Making the World Better
Students studying to be software developers have come up with a handful of games designed to help blind children navigate the world in which they live. From a version of "Dance Dance Revolution" to "Braille Twister," the games are designed to be both fun and educational.
More @ LinuxInsider

10. Random Favorites (Philippine Tech News and Blogs)

*DOST’s Bayanihan Linux version 5.0 coming soon

*HowTo: Prevent Non-Root From Rebooting/Shutting Down The System

*Connecting to AMFPHP in Adobe AIR Part 1

*Full Time Problogging

*Make Firefox 2 the Best Browser for Kubuntu

*Learning Click Probability Based on Google Search Results

*Awaken The Giant Within You

*Jehzlau Concepts Featured On Manila Bulletin
Congrats Master J! ;- )

Weekly Ten (04-28-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Ethanol, the ultimate home brew
What if you could make fuel for your car in your backyard for less than you pay at the pump? Would you?
More @ International Herald Tribune

2. What makes a design "Googley"?
Late in 2007, our User Experience (UX) group—which does user interface design, visual design, user research, web development, and user interface writing—set out to articulate the principles that ought to guide Google designs worldwide.
More @ Googleblog

3. Remote control function said hidden in iPhone beta firmware
Code in Apple's latest iPhone 2.0 beta firmware allegedly contains references to a utility that will let an iPhone or iPod touch play media from nearby iTunes sources.
More @ AppleInsider

4. DIY X-Men: flame throwing wrist guard
More @ HackaDay

5. Will Cute Factor Be Enough for Chumby?
Chumby, a Linux-based device that streams widgets, is cute -- there's little doubt about that. In order to gain traction in the consumer market, however, it's going to take a lot more than the cute factor, analysts say.
More @ LinuxInsider

6. Hackers Focus Efforts on Firefox, Safari
Many people are switching from Internet Explorer to alternative browsers such as Firefox and Safari. Though that might make them feel more secure, the shift has also opened new doors for bad guys.
More @ Washington Post

7. Microsoft earnings post-mortem: The cash cows quiver
The headlines on Microsoft’s fiscal 2008 third quarter earnings were all over the map this week — with claims that Microsoft beat expectations, to Microsoft fell far short of the mark.
More @ ZDNetBlogs

8. Man attempts LCD TV theft using water bottle UPC, fails
More @ Engadget

9. Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs
Lately I've been delving into the WordPress ecosystem, as it seems to be the most popular blogging platform around at the moment. I've set up two blogs with it so far. In the process, I've gotten quite comfortable with the setup, interface, and overall operation of WordPress.
More @ CodingHorror

10. Do You Have An Unrealistic Dream?
If you don’t have one, get one–Quick!
More @ BoSanchez

Weekly Ten (04-21-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Should All Developers Have Manycore CPUs?
Dual core CPUs are effectively standard today, and for good reason -- there are substantial, demonstrable performance improvements to be gained from having a second CPU on standby to fulfill requests that the first CPU is too busy to handle.
More @ CodingHorror

2. Working together to fight malware
As part of this ongoing security series, we'd like to talk a little about malware. The term malware, derived from "malicious software," refers to any software specifically designed to harm your computer or the software it's running.
More @ Googleblog

3. The 500,000 GB MP3 Player
Sounds impossible? It could really happen, thanks to a new breakthrough.
More @ DigitalTrends

4. Electric (off-road) skateboard
More @ HackaDay

5. Will Hardy Heron Shine Where Red Hat Fears to Tread?
Red Hat's announcement that it would give up its pursuit of the consumer desktop with a Linux-based operating system started quite a buzz on the Linux blogs this week. The acceptance of Linux as a consumer alternative to Windows and Mac OS X is a perennial issue in the open source community.
More @ LinuxInsider

6. PayPal may block Safari users
As part of a multi-tiered approach to guarding against online fraud on its site, PayPal says it will block the use of any web browser that doesn't provided added validation measures, potentially restricting the current version of Safari from the e-commerce site.
More @ AppleInsider

7. PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to pay a million dollars for fake meat — even if it has caused a “near civil war” within the organization.

More @ NYTimes

8. Pioneer intros the NavGate AVIC-F900BT and AVIC-F700BT GPS units
More @ Engadget

9. Asustek to Launch Eee PC With 10-inch Screen
Asustek plans to launch a new version of the Eee PC with a 10-inch screen, a top executive said Monday.
More @ PCWorld

10. Is Praying Supposed To Be Fun?
Do you struggle praying daily? I did. For years.
More @ BoSanchez
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Weekly Ten (04-14-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them
In a study published Sunday in Nature Neuroscience, researchers using brain scanners could predict people's decisions seven seconds before the test subjects were even aware of making them.
More @ Wired

2. Rediscovering Arcade Nostalgia
I can also attribute my career in software development to arcade games. Like many software developers, my introduction to programming was my Dad telling me if I wanted to play video games at home, I had to write them first.
More @ CodingHorror

3. Developers, start your engines
We just launched a preview release of Google App Engine, a way for developers to run their web applications on Google's infrastructure. In the same way that Blogger made it easy to create a blog, Google App Engine is designed from the ground up to make it easy to create and run web applications.
More @ Googleblog

4. Ben Heck's PS3 Laptop
More @ HackaDay

5. Linux Ecosystem Revenue to Near $50 Billion by 2011
Analytic firm IDC sees revenue from Linux-oriented servers, software and services reaching $49 billion in three years, more than double what it is today.
More @ LinuxInsider

6. Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle
Within minutes of Yahoo announcing it was going to do an AdSense for Search deal with Google, Microsoft began firing the antitrust warning shots.
More @ ZDNetBlogs

7. IBM's 'racetrack' technology could increase iPhone storage tenfold
A new form of digital storage technology under development at IBM could deliver more than tenfold increases in both the storage capacity and battery life of handheld gadgets like Apple's iPod and iPhone, according to the company's claims.
More @ AppleInsider

8. Psystar's OpenMac clone is close to a Cease and Desist order
More @ Engadget


9. Wikipedia breeds 'unwitting trust' says IT professor

If you are faced with the prospect of having brain surgery who would you rather it be performed by - a surgeon trained at medical school or someone who has read Wikipedia?

More @ ComputerWorld

10. I Still Date My Ex-Girlfriend
After ten years of marriage, I’m still crazy for this woman.
More @ BoSanchezBlog
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Weekly Ten (04-07-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Dial D for Disruption
Want to build a phone company for $100? Give Mark Spencer a ring.
More @ Forbes.com

2. 'Ruthlessness gene' discovered
Selfish dictators may owe their behaviour partly to their genes, according to a study that claims to have found a genetic link to ruthlessness.
More @ Nature.com

3. WSJ's Mossberg says 3G iPhone due in 60 days
Speaking at a Beet.tv executive summit, well-known Wall Street Journal writer Walt Mossberg has stirred the pot by stating that an iPhone with 3G access will be available within 60 days.
More @ AppleInsider

4. Beer-30, OLED style
More @ HackaDay

5. Cone of silence (finally) lifts on the spectrum auction
For three weeks at the end of January and early February, a small team of us holed up in double super secret "war rooms" in Mountain View, CA and Washington, D.C. to bid on Google's behalf in the FCC spectrum auction. Bidding took place electronically, and literally billions of dollars were at stake with every mouse click.
More @ Googleblog

6. Facebook Chat Launches - Tour & First Impressions
Facebook has just turned on Chat in a “few networks” (including mine) this morning and I think it’s a great implementation. While Facebook hasn’t announced an official rollout schedule, Chat will be gradually rolling out over the coming days.
More @ InsideFacebook

7. Test-driving OpenOffice.org 3.0
With OpenOffice.org 2.4 just released, OpenOffice.org 3.0 (OOo3) has already passed its feature freeze, and is scheduled for release in September. Based on recent development builds, what can you expect?
More @ Linux.com

8. Everex's new MyMiniPC: $500 and gOS-powered
More @ Engadget

9. Kernel space: ELF prediction to speed application startup
A new technique might make it faster to get started with a large application, by giving the kernel advance notice of what are most likely to be the program's commonly used memory pages.
More @ LinuxWorld

10. Yang hits back at Ballmer; mentions antitrust concerns
That didn’t take long. Two days after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a three-week acquisition ultimatum to Yahoo’s board, Yahoo answered with its own letter.
More @ ZDNetBlogs

Weekly Ten (04-01-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Top 10 April Fools' Pranks for Nerds

Here are the top 10 tech-related April Fools' jokes to play on friends and co-workers. The best geek pranks make a gadget or a co-worker's computer appear "broken." Watch with glee as the unsuspecting victim goes mental trying to figure it out.

More @ Wired

2. Linux Declared 'Hacker Proof'
The Linux running on a Sony Vaio remained undefeated at the end of a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.
More @ AllHeadlineNews

3. Announcing Project Virgle
In my life, I've had a lot of exciting adventures and launched a lot of ambitious business ventures. I'm delighted today to announce Virgle, Inc., a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google which qualifies on both counts.
More @ Googleblog

4. Reverse engineering the Novint Falcon
More @ HackaDay

5. Revisiting The Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
I like to re-read my favorite books every few years, so I brought Robert Glass' seminal Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering with me on my most recent trip. I thought it was a decent, but imperfect read when I originally bought it in 2004.
More @ CodingHorror

6. Apple encountering ongoing US-wide iPhone shortage
Checks with stores across the US show Apple to have been virtually devoid of iPhone stock for days, even at its online store -- and with signs that the company is aware of its widespread nature.
More @ AppleInsider

7. Report: Mozilla enterprise browser share hits 18 percent
On the same day that Mozilla is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its Mozilla source code release, Forrester Research analysts have released a new study that shows that Firefox’s market share among business users has doubled in the past year, and is now at 18 percent.
More @ ZDNetBlogs

8. Nokia WiMAX N810 appears in the wild
More @ Engadget

9. Trying to get PyPy to run on Python 3.0
As you surely know, Python 3.0 is coming; recently, they released Python 3.0 alpha 3, and the final version is expected around September.
More @ PyPy Status Blog

10. Why I Look Like Tom Cruise
I get interviewed a lot. Perhaps once a week, I get interviewed (No joke).
More @ BoSanchezBlog